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Mouse does not work on text area (Ubuntu)

#1

Hello,

my mouse just stopped working in Sublime Text in the text area, it works well on the opened file tabs, it can scroll them and I can click them to close, but on the text area nothing: no right click popup menu, no scroll of content or on minimap.

Mouse works just fine outside of Sublime, I tried to change to another mouse, same thing, I tried to use a clean state for sublime, same thing, I tried to reinstall sublime package also same thing.

I don’t know how to fix this, maybe it’s time to test vscode but I love Sublime text (I have a license) and it was perfect until now.

Sublime text: version: 3207 linux x64 Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS

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#2

Please run this in St’s console and post the output:

sublime.find_resources("*.sublime-mousemap")

And check whether you have an override file for ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/Default/Default (Linux).sublime-mousemap

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#3 
>>> sublime.find_resources("*.sublime-mousemap")
['Packages/Default/Default (Linux).sublime-mousemap', 'Packages/Default/Default (OSX).sublime-mousemap', 'Packages/Default/Default (Windows).sublime-mousemap']

and I don’t have any directory named Default under ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/ so no override

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#4

do you have a touch screen? some people reported similar problems before and touching the screen helped resolve it iirc. otherwise, does restarting your computer help?

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#5

Thank you, indeed I have a touchscreen on my laptop, and touching it fixed the problem !

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#6

Hi there.

It just starts happening on my PC today. The cursor is not working on the text area. I am running Sublime Text 3 version 4126 on Ubuntu 20.04.

From yesterday to today two things happened:

  1. Upgrade: linux-firmware:amd64 (1.187.23, 1.187.24)
  2. I have installed Intl keyboard mapping for Latin characters on Ubuntu 20.04

By the way, I don’t have a touchscreen.

Is there any work around for this?

Thanks!

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